Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where a dastardly doubles deal out disaster and death? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Enemy Within" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Plus One." Join Stella and Erin (and Stella and Erin) as we discuss space dogs, thrown dookie, cold men, and hangmen. --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite TV show. Seeking to rectify that gri...
Oct 15, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where a roaving group of performers are privy to peril? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Way To Eden" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Humbug." Join Stella and Erin as we discuss herberts, hoaxes, music and (fiji) mermaids! We reach, you gaffs. --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite TV show. Seeking to rectify that grievous er...
Oct 01, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where nefarious nosferatu carniverate characters? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Man Trap" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "3." Nailing the theme so far in season 3, join Stella and Erin for a feast of salt tablets and blood bread! --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite TV show. Seeking to rectify that grievous error (seriou...
Sep 16, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where asshole automatons attempt to overtake and overthrow? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "I, Mudd" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Rm9sbG93ZXJz." We're back with two bangers! Join Stella and Erin as they evade drone and clones with Mulder and Bones. (Bobby was sick, he's better now) --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite TV sh...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Does your favorite sci-fi mashup podcast have an episode where they wrap-up their second season? For Stella Cheeks it's this podcast, and for Erin Cline it's THIS PODCAST! Join us as we look back on questionable theme picks, everlasting friendships, and so very much screaming. Are you Duane Barry enough to wrap-up X-Treks season 2 with us? Sit down, have some green! --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite T...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where they try and force some characters and themes from another cancelled (or nonexistent) show on you? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Assignment: Earth" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Millennium." It's the last regular episode of our second season! Join Stella and Erin as we discuss forced IP synergy, sexy cat ladies, how non-canon lore do be out there, and a real life baby! (Gene's spinoff podcast will be a wild ...
May 27, 2022•1 hr 37 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where the characters encounter antagonistic authority figures or corrupt slimy superiors? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Doomsday Machine" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Zero Sum." Join Erin and Stella for an episode that has everything: BEES, Scotty in a tube of sparks, more BEES, Skinner in his undies, kids getting swarmed by BEES, floating super powerful planet devouring sex toys, Skinner in a tight shirt doi...
May 14, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where the characters encounter (or ARE) strange creatures where they do not belong? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "By Any Other Name" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Firewalker". Erin and Stella are back with dice that die and ancient spores shooting out of guys! Join us for two tales where the real invaders are humans and their feelings! --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over ...
Apr 29, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where the characters encounter beings who live too long or seemingly forever (and are awful because of it)? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Requiem For Methuselah" and for Erin Cline it's the X-Files episode "Nothing Lasts Forever". **Exasperated scream warning for ~1:04:17** Join Stella and Erin as they grow ever more grateful they don't live forever or have to deal with anyone that does! FORGET. --- About the podcast: Erin Cline...
Apr 15, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where the characters encounter a mysterious being from another planet? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Metamorphosis" (and MANY others) and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Little Green Men" (and not as many but still like SEVERAL others). Join Stella and Erin as they encounter a formless fraternizing cloud and an interstellar dj who wants to abduct you and make you listen to their mix tape! --- About the podcast: Erin Cl...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 43 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where characters stumble into a situation and find that they are really into it. Like, REALLY into it? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Elaan of Troyius" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Never Again". Join Stella and Erin as they discuss entitled brats and psychotic tats with two episodes where characters think "Oops, I liked that!" --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where people seem to vanish with next to know trace? How do you know? Maybe they just never noticed?! For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Immunity Syndrome" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Soft Light". The Crew is exhausted and so is Tony Shalhoub, but @ErngenC and @Stella_Cheeks are just the stimulant we all need to deep dive into a duo of dark matter debacles. --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have b...
Mar 04, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where characters disguise their true identities or even their ears to take down the enemy? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Enterprise Incident" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Arcadia". Espionage! Join @Stella_Cheeks and @ErngenC as they sneak around with pointy eared honeypots, colonizer trash monsters, and also a tulpa! --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but ...
Feb 18, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where it's just.... really fucking cold? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "All Our Yesterdays" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Ice". Yeah! Nailing this theme! Join Stella and Erin as they watch both the Federation and The Feds battle inner turmoil and frostbite alike. Remember, if you're cold so is your baby snake in a latex suit. Bring them inside. --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends...
Feb 04, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where someone get's a crime pinned on them that they didn't commit (even if it's only VERY briefly)? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Court Martial" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Fire". Revenge is in the air and jet fuel is in the paint as Stella and Erin figure out whodunnit and who didn't. That old friend? Your spicy ex? Just don't those trust computers or on which grave they had sex! --- About the podcast: Erin C...
Jan 21, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Does your favorite sci-fi show have... Ok, you know what? We don't have to do this for this one. Kirk wears tight red pants and Mulder wears a red speedo at some point in these episodes. That's it. That's the theme. Do you need more?! For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Charlie X" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Duane Barry" and "Ascension" (the red speedo happens in Duane Barry but I GUESS we care about the story as well). Join Stella and Erin as they watch some ru...
Jan 07, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where characters struggle with the immense weight of familial friction? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Journey To Babel" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Beyond The Sea". Sad dads, mad lads, assassins and ghosts, egads! Join Erin and Stell as they untangle intergalactic espionage and ethereal investigations all sung to the tune of "Are You Proud of Me Now, Parents?" and just in time for the holiday weekend! --- About...
Dec 24, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where humanity grapples with it's own technological creations and the concept of what it means to be human? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Ultimate Computer" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Kill Switch". Join Stella and Erin as they discuss what it means to be "living", if machines created by humans could ever be "perfect", and which characters truly don't care and just want these metal menaces to DIE! #wargame...
Dec 10, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where mankind struggles with it's relationship to other animals whether they be invisible, alien, or intangible? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Arena" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Fearful Symmetry". Tigers, Elephants, and Gorn! Oh, gosh! Join Stella and Erin as they watch space sensualists and spooky smolderers fight for mankind's dominance on the food chain. (Spoilers, humans ain't shit!) --- About the podcast:...
Nov 26, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where the men are just like... the worst? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Is The In Truth No Beauty?" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Mulder And Scully Meet The Weremonster." Join Stella and Erin as they UGH and BLEH at these bros and their confidence issues. Don't Starfleet and the FBI have health plans that pay for therapy? Because they should. --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends f...
Nov 12, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where characters undergo a mental transference and trade physical forms with someone else? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Return To Tomorrow," and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Dreamland 1 & 2." For real this time! On purpose! Join Stella and Erin as they discuss all the freaky Friday friction that ensues when our heroes have to barter for their bodies with self-important supreme beings and slimy government suit ...
Oct 29, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode that attempts to retroactively fix something within it's universe's continuity, or create an issue that needs to be fixed later? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Errand Of Mercy" and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episodes "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"... at least, until we change it later. Join Stella and Erin as they discuss the first coming of the Klingons what happens when you mix hypno-therapy with Venus at it's peak brill...
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where spectral entities or unseen forces haunt and taunt the main characters? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "The Tholian Web," and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "How The Ghosts Stole Christmas." Join Stella and Erin for tales of innerspace specters, aspirational apparitions, and the contentious couples they come across! Also, who to look to for Christmas wrapping advice from and what goes good with scotch. ooOOoOOOOO!!...
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where villains use tricks of the eye or change their physical forms to fool the unsuspecting heroes? For Stella Cheeks, it's (kind of) the Star Trek TOS episode "Mudd's Women," and for Erin Cline, it's (maybe) the X-Files episodes "Terms Of Endearment." Ok look, no amount of alliteration will cover up the fact that the theme of this episode is looser than a settler on Ophiucus III, but you gotta give the demon his due! It's still a very fun show whe...
Sep 17, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Does your favorite sci-fi show have an episode where doctors or dictators dabble in DNA debauchery? For Stella Cheeks, it's the Star Trek TOS episode "Space Seed," and for Erin Cline, it's the X-Files episode "Eve." It's season 2 of X-Treks, and it starts with two tales of ribosomal rumbles! --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite TV show. Seeking to rectify that grievous error (seriously, they used to live...
Sep 03, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Please enjoy the first episode of our very real, totally not a joke, podcast - Unofficial Channels. As a result of X-Treks, Stella has a new tsunami level thirst for Mitch Pileggi. Unfortunately, he's not in every X-Files episode they watch, so consider Unofficial Channels a thirst triage! Normally, this is a Patreon exclusive podcast, but to celebrate X-Treks Season Two and announce our Patreon's restructuring (every patron gets everything for as little as a dollar!), we thought we'd share this...
Sep 01, 2021•51 min
Erin Cline & Stella Cheeks are back for X-Treks season two. The beliefs are bolder, the truth is seekier and the ships are PROUD and LOUD. Buckle up and bring a friend. It's going to be a wild ride! --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade but have never seen each other's favorite TV show. Seeking to rectify that grievous error (seriously, they used to live together), X-Treks was born! Each week the duo choose one episode from Star Trek: The Ori...
Aug 22, 2021•3 min•Season 2Ep. 1
What's it like to watch an entire season of a show in order after you've only ever seen 20 random episodes? Will it change your perspective of the show? Or is your gut instinct right? For this between season X-Treks X-Tra episode, Erin and Bobby gave Stella the green light to watch X-Files season one (mostly) and Stella finally learns that aliens are the least interesting thing about the X-Files and the real spooky is the friends we made along the way. --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stell...
Aug 13, 2021•53 min
What's the worst version of your favorite tv show, and how can you convince your friend to hate it with you? For this between season X-Treks X-Tra episode, Erin and Stella watch the movie Star Trek (2009) and discuss how something as clever as an alternate Star Trek TOS universe could have gone so straight and so wrong! Join us as we go out of our Vulcan minds discussing the brief highs and deep lows of J.J. Abrams' thinly veiled Star Wars audition. Can't you tell we liked it? --- About the podc...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 10 min
It's our season 1 retrospective episode! Join Erin, Stella, and Bobby as we look back on our journey through season 1 of X-Treks in which two old friends share their favorite sci-fi shows with one another for the first time ever! We reminisce over all we've seen and learned while hinting towards the show's future. No episodes, ALL FEELINGS! --- About the podcast: Erin Cline and Stella Cheeks have been friends for over a decade, but have never seen each other's favorite TV show. Seeking to rectif...
Jun 11, 2021•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 21
